It's mid-December and all eyes of college football fans across the nation are glued to ESPN.

Chris Fowler has finished interviewing six candidates over a span of what feels like seven hours and, finally, the reason people tuned in has arrived.

Some person you've never heard of — nor will again — steps to the podium and as they spew bogus promotional material for their company, the camera pans across the front row, showing Jameis Winston, Braxton Miller and CSU quarterback Garrett Grayson.

Just as the words "and the winner of the 2014 Heisman Trophy is …" are spoken, the Earth starts to shake with debris slapping you across the face as the voice of a little girl shouts "Daddy, Daddy."

Wake up. It's a Monday morning in April and your daughter needs breakfast before school.

Grayson potentially winning the Heisman his year might sound like a pipe dream and, for now, it is, but that's how all great accomplishments start. Why not get the ball rolling to turn it into a reality?

Mountain West football has become all about quarterback play and Grayson is one of its best, ranking No. 2 behind a rare healthy version of Utah State's Chuckie Keeton.

A year ago, even at the end of his record-breaking season — throwing for 3,696 yards, 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions — no one was placing Grayson on their all-conference list. But gone are Derek Carr, David Fales, Joe Southwick and Brett Smith. Grayson will be a Mountain West headliner, and what better way to solidify that than by starting an official Heisman campaign for him?

Grayson is on pace to set every significant passing record in CSU history and, barring any more furniture-related injuries, should break them. He's fewer than 2,000 yards shy of the career passing mark (set by Kelly Stouffer in 1986), 20 from career touchdowns (Moses Moreno, 1997) and 159 from career completions (Stouffer, '86).

He's about to shatter records held by the No. 6 overall pick in the 1987 NFL draft and no one outside of the Front Range and Rip City is aware of it.

Bring on the national spotlight, the free "Garrett for Heisman" T-shirts, obligatory hashtags and social media accounts. A little attention from football lovers back East is never a bad thing and gives ESPN a better reasonke to put CSU games against Colorado and Hawaii on one of its three main channels rather than bumping them to The Ocho.

CSU should start campaigning for him. He has records to tout, is attending the Manning Passing Camp and, as former center Weston Richburg put it, is the "good-looking" face of a program on the rise.

Play the look-at-me card.

National attention — or better penetration across Colorado, for that matter — is really what it's all about, rather than the Rams' best player being worthy of college football's most coveted award.

More eyes on the program means a larger reach and, possibly, actual Heisman votes, which means more potential donors, leading to hitting the proposed on-campus stadium's fund-raising goals, leading to building said stadium, in turn pulling more out-of-state students, providing more revenue to the school and the interest of better recruits with improved facilities, meaning more wins, leading to a Mountain West championship, a berth in the College Football Playoff, then a national championship, which draws more donations to CSU academics, leading to the development of a time machine, which means preventing George Lucas from creating Jar Jar Binks, and keeping "Sports Night" from being canceled on a cliffhanger, and stopping this run-on sentence from ever starting, and, and …

And that's a lot of weight to put on the shoulders of a 23-year-old, but it's no more heavy lifting than moving a couch.